You laugh but I have developed film shot in my folders and am always perplexed when I find out I did exactly that. And didn't remember doing it.
DUH!
tim in san jose
Sometimes I find myself turning a 6x6 folder 90 degrees for a better composition.
Steve.
Sometimes I find myself turning a 6x6 folder 90 degrees for a better composition.
Steve.
i can live with the broken backwards ground glass
It's 6:25 AM here and soaking in caffenol sounds like a good way to develop a better attitude than I have right now. A cute fuzzy kitten wouldn't hurt either, but I no longer have a girlfriend.
Sometimes I find myself turning a 6x6 folder 90 degrees for a better composition.
Steve.
Be careful, kittens tend to bite and scratch.
Look, the easiest way to resolve this is to take your camera to the Large Hadron Collider and ask the scientist in charge to slip it in with the next experiment. It'll blow the thing to bits and reassemble it in the next adjacent universe, which should fix the problem. Of course, you won't know if that universe is to the left or right or up or down, but according to String Theory it's only a millimetre away, so it should be easy enough to find if you grope around a bit.
The other option, I suppose is to ask my great aunt Millicent (bronze medallist in Greco-Roman wrestling in the 1932 Olympic Games and a keen photographer). She's been dead a few years now, but she comes through on the second Thursday of every month at about 9pm. I could ask her, if you like?
Les
Maybe she looked like a dude, like some of those East German women later on.
... i have to stop watching la jetée
I often hear people in Europe who quote paper and film sizes say the width first, then the height. In other words, where I might say a photograph is 8x10, a person from across the pond might say 10x8.
"Other images appear, merge, in that museum which is, perhaps, his memory." ( sounds better in French!)
La Jetée - best ever use of a Pentax Spotmatic......
I was doing some research on this, as I have the same problems with mine. Turns out it's a historical problem. Margaret Bourke White had similar issues with her TLR back in the 40's.
The advice is not to use lighter fluid to clean the orientation sensor. Prop wash should be used instead. Margaret hung out at the airport and borrowed it as needed. Since it's a combustion component known as an oxidizer, you might not be able to get it at large commercial airports; go to a small local airstrip instead.
That skyward gaze is her thinking about how the image gets transformed in the camera, and vertical and horizontal and left to right and stuff. I'd imagine she was doing some before and after test photos.
Well, as promised I asked my great aunt Millicent last Thursday night. Her suggestion was to wait for the first full moon in December. Find your way to the ancient Aztec Temple of Oxyacetylotl in the rainforest of northern Mexico (a shaman will appear in your dreams with directions, or you could Google it). Climb to the top (taking your camera with you. You'll need an eye-level prism finder) and you'll see a stone altar with a gold casket in the middle of it. Inside the casket will be a roll of 120 film. At nightfall, load the film, then lay down on the altar with your head facing north. As the moon comes up it will shine a beam between two columns, and this beam will shine onto the middle of your forehead, opening up the third eye. THIS IS THE EYE YOU MUST NOW FOCUS WITH!! Sit up, put the camera to your third eye and take a photo of the moon at f11 and 125th. If you've followed these instructions carefully, you should find that from now on all your 6x6 photos will be the right way up. However, they'll all be 2 1/4" x 2 1/4", so you'll have to compensate.
At least, that's what Aunt Millie said. She got it from some entity in the Pleiades.
Hope that helps,
Les
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